Somerset concludes a treaty with Ngqika (aka Gaika)
… volunteered, and Ndlambe, who was retreating, abandoned about 23,000 cattle to the pursuing commandos. Ngqika, who … Makana urged the Xhosa to unite and he and Ndlambe led about 6,000 men in an attack on Grahamstown in 1819, but the … and thus while the British lost the lives of three men, about a thousand spear-carrying warriors were killed. Makana …